Chapter 2: The Abscond

While speaking, "Master Sun Jiu" had already vomited and was carried back by the fat man to sit down again. He was drunk as mud, and even his mind was a little dazed. He sat in the table in a daze. He didn't know what he was thinking in his mind, but he muttered inexplicably like a ghost: "What a king, he has a body but no head; his wife doesn't come, and the mountains don't bloom; he boils firewood and boils his liver and lungs; he digs a well and cuts salt, asks ghosts for money; the birds are crisscrossing, and nine steps are gone; if you want to visit the earth immortal, look for the blacks first..."

I heard what "Sun Jiuye" said half of the text and half vulgar, like an ancient poem, or a rumor, and the content was bizarre, and it was difficult to understand the meaning for a while. I heard the four words "I want to visit the Earth Immortal" and then I realized in my heart: "It is mostly a hint of looking for the entrance to the Earth Immortal's ancient tomb!"

At this time, the fat man said, "This Sun Laojiu, don't drink it if you can't drink it. Can you have the alcohol tolerance of Fat Master? Look, you start chanting the Three Character Classic after drinking too much. What a mess..."

I quickly pressed the fat man's mouth and put up my ears to listen to Professor Sun's "nonsense" after getting drunk, but after he said, "If you want to visit the earth immortal, look for the black one first...", he disappeared, and lay on the table and couldn't wake up, and he didn't say anything anymore.

I was so itchy that I wanted to break Professor Sun's mouth apart and let him say it word by word from beginning to end. The key is the sentence: "What should I find black first when I want to find the King's Tomb of the Earth Immortal tomb?" I didn't listen carefully to the first few sentences. Now I think about it, it seems to be "What good lady cooks water for the king?"

Shirley Yang had the ability to keep his ears in mind. She said: "It's not a good lady who boils water. What Professor Sun said just now should be - a good king, with a body but no head; if the lady doesn't come, the mountains will not bloom; if the wood is burning firewood and boiling the liver and lungs; if you dig wells and cut salt, ask ghosts for money; if you go to the earthly immortal, you will find the black ones first..."

I quickly wrote these sentences on my notebook. It seemed that Sun Jiuye had some information about the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal in his stomach. He was so excited that he drank two more taels, and then he accidentally revealed what the mystery was there in his few unpredictable words? We can't understand them at all.

Shirley Yang said: "What a great king... he has a body but no head...? I think the word "名" has a head, and it is a word "名". Could it be a hidden riddle? It implies the secret in the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal? If the wife doesn't come, the mountains don't open. What is the hidden word in this sentence? It should not be a riddle, and the words cannot be removed in the next few sentences."

At this time, I was also confused by the fact that the monk Zhang Er was confused: "The king with a body and without a head? Who is the king without a head? Who is the lady of Kaishan? I can't even understand the first sentence, so I naturally have no clue about the hints after that."

The fat man said, "When Fat Master goes to find a cup of cold water, he will wake up Master Sun Jiu, and then bake it and ask. If he refuses to tell the truth, we have to give him some tricks. He would greet him, such as chili water, tiger orange, etc., and he would be punished."

I shook my head and said, "We are not the Baigongguan in Zhazidong, and Professor Sun is not the arrested revolutionary. How can he torture him? I think we should stop torture him today. After we finish our meal, we will take him home. It will not be too late to ask him when he wakes up, so he dare not hide anything."

Then the three of us had a meal with questions. Shirley Yang paid the money and took Professor Sun back to my place where I lived. At the gate of the courtyard, Professor Sun asked me in a daze: "Hmm? Where is this? Don't let me go to the farm. I'm not a rightist, not a traitor, I have never killed anyone..."

I comforted him and said, "Don't worry, I won't be escorted to the labor reform farm with armed forces. You see, this is my home. This place is called You'anmen. It doesn't matter if you are a rightist. No matter which country the rightist is, as long as you live in You'anmen... I'll be safe." But I was even more confused and thought to myself, "Professor Sun killed someone? Who did he kill? Although he has a bad temper, he doesn't seem like a killer. Killing people is not a chicken. Not everyone has the courage to start."

The fat man was impatient to wait for Professor Sun to sober up, and after he got home, he went to Panjiayuan to practice a stall. In the afternoon, Shirley and Yang, who saw that Professor Sun was awake, poured him a cup of hot tea. I closed the door, moved a chair and sat in front of him, and said in a straightforward manner: "Jiu Master, you are so drunk just now that you have told me that you were a murderer and I would not believe it. I guess you must have been wronged. You might as well tell us the whole story of these things."

I patted my chest and assured Chairman Mao that as long as I can help with this matter, I will go through fire and water without hesitation, and I will definitely try every means to clear your innocence. If I can't do anything, if I hear what you say today, Shirley and Yang and I will be rotten in my stomach and will never tell anyone else a word.

Professor Sun knew that he had lost his words after drinking, but seeing Shirley Yang and I looked sincere, he had to tell him about his experience during the Cultural Revolution. Unexpectedly, he was also closely related to the "Earth Immortal Ancient Tomb". Professor Sun wanted to find the "Earth Immortal Ancient Tomb", 80% of the reasons were related to his experience in the labor reform farm.

During the Cultural Revolution, Sun Xuewu was impacted. Due to his poor popularity, he was framed. At first, he was accused of having a lifestyle problem. Later, some villain gave him the title of a revolutionary traitor. How could he explain it himself during the public trial? He was tied up and was about to be executed on the spot. Fortunately, his old classmate Chen Jiuren, who is Professor Chen, stood up to testify, proving that Sun Xuewu was very low in consciousness and had never participated in the revolution at all, so he could not be a traitor, which allowed him to escape.

Later, Sun Xuewu and Chen Jiuren, the brothers in distress, were sent to the orchard in Shaanxi for labor reform. In fact, there was no orchard at all, but a quarry with stones. Chen Jiuren, a scholar, could not bear the life of a sledgehammer and chiseling stones? He collapsed within half a month. Fortunately, his family had a connection and opened a hospital with a tumor in his stomach. He took him back to Beijing for treatment. He did not die on the farm.

But no one cared about Sun Xuewu. He was alone, his wife had long died, had no children, and had no way, so he had to bear the hardships day by day in the farm. Fortunately, he had good physical fitness. He had done farm work before liberation and could withstand such heavy physical labor in a short time. However, his mental pressure was too great and his future was bleak. He didn't know what would happen in the future. Moreover, these labor reform personnel had to report and expose each other. If you don't expose others, others would have to find ways to expose you. That life was simply not something that humans lived.

Sun Xuewu met a man on the farm. He was the leader of the regiment when he was resisting U.S. aggressing the United States and aiding Korea. His surname was Feng. He didn't know why he was sent to work. Because he worked with General Sun Xuewu, he was connected with the same fate. The two of them were quite good at each other. One day, the leader Feng secretly said to Sun Xuewu: "Old Sun, I really can't stand this kind of life where people are neither human nor ghost. I thought about it for several days, and now I have thought about it and plan to run away. I think you are almost out of reach. You might as well run with me."

Sun Xuewu was shocked and asked Captain Feng, "Run? Don't want to be in the head anymore? Besides, although this farm is not strictly guarded, it is in the sparsely populated mountains of the Daba Mountains. Even if you run out, what will happen? Where can you hide afterwards? Can you still be caught? "

Commander Feng seemed to be very confident. He said: "After crossing the mountain, I will enter Sichuan. My hometown is in Sichuan. Instead of being trapped here and waiting for death, I might as well venture across the mountains. As long as I return to my hometown, fish enter the sea and birds enter the blue sky."

It turned out that this commander Feng, whose ancestors were local tyrants in the Ming Dynasty, had worked as the "Guanshan Taibao", which is tomb robbers. "Guanshan Taibao" dug out the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book in an ancient tomb in Sichuan a long time ago. After comprehending the mystery, he obtained the great way and became an immortal. He built a Dixian Village in the underground palace of the stolen ancient tomb. As a place to hide the truth a hundred years later, it is said that whoever found this Dixian Village and worshiped Dixian Guanshan Taibao would be able to live forever. From then on, he would not eat or drink, and he would not even touch the fireworks on earth.

But this ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal is too deep to find, and no trace can be found. Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, no one has found it. However, the Earth Immortal left a few secret words to the descendants of the Feng family, "What a great king, he has no head; if his wife doesn't come, the mountains will not bloom; if you burn wood and boil the pot, boil the liver and lungs; if you dig wells and cut salt, ask ghosts for money; if you walk across the birds, you will walk nine times a hundred steps; if you want to visit the Earth Immortal, you will find the black sheep first..."

In this ancient mystery, there is an important secret at the entrance of the Earth Immortal Village. In addition to the Feng family, he never told anyone that he knew about it. At that time, Commander Feng only told Professor Sun a little bit and advised him to run back to Sichuan with him and hide in the Earth Immortal Tomb to take refuge. Although Commander Feng had been a soldier and fought wars, he was particularly superstitious about the illusory things passed down by his ancestors. It is precisely for this reason that he was sent here. Now he can't stand the crime of digging mountains and quarrying, so he wants to escape back to his hometown. It is hard to say whether he can become an immortal and immortal, but finally there is a place to go. Anyway, there is a death inside and outside. If there is really a heavenly book in the King's tomb, then follow the ancestors to become immortals.

When Professor Sun heard this, he felt that Captain Feng must have a brain problem, and may be overwhelmed and mentally collapsed. Why dare to say anything? I have been saying that just now, and I won’t be too many times when I shoot you ten times.

So Professor Sun expressed his attitude and refused to go with him, saying, "If you want to go, go by yourself. Don't worry, I will never tell my secret behind my back."

Commander Feng sneered: "As the saying goes, don't spit out your confidant's words. Since I have told you about your abscond plan to escape, even if you don't expose it, I'm afraid you won't be able to escape after I run away. Let's do this, I'll help you."

Professor Sun was shocked: "What do you want?" Before he finished speaking, he ate a pickaxe on the back of his head and fainted immediately. When he woke up, he had already disappeared from Captain Feng.

The disappearance of the Group Commander Feng was a hot topic in the labor reform farm. The people searched the mountain for a hundred miles, but they couldn't find a single hair of the Group Commander Feng, so he could not fly with his wings. At this time, someone revealed that he saw Professor Sun and was interrogated at the end. But Professor Sun also knew that this matter could not be said, otherwise it would be deeper and deeper even if he wanted to tell the truth. Could it be that the Group Commander Feng went to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal to seek immortality? Who could believe it? He had to insist that he might have run away. He said that he didn't know anything about it. He was also a victim.

Although this matter was left unresolved, people's words were terrifying. Some people began to suspect that it was probably because Professor Sun and Captain Feng had a personal grudge and secretly killed Captain Feng. He didn't know where to bury the body. Although this statement was not officially recognized, it was widely spread in private and everyone regarded him as a murderer. Until the Gang of Four was crushed, his incident was still unclear.

Professor Sun was not sure whether Captain Feng had fled back to Sichuan, and the problem of Captain Feng was later rehabilitated. Even if he was hiding in the deep mountains, he could still stand up straight, but he still didn't show up. This person was like evaporating from the world. Over the years, he has always been "not seen in life, but he will never see the corpse when he died", so the rumors that he "had been killed by the enemy Professor Tse Sun and had corpses in the deserted mountains" are even more convincing, but there is no evidence for the time being, and no one can do anything to Professor Sun.

The mystery of the disappearance of the Group Commander Feng became a heart-wrenching problem for Professor Sun in the future. Later, when he came into contact with various legends and records about the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb" at work, he paid special attention. One was to find the ancient hexagram of Zhoutian from it so that his research results could be made. In addition, he also wanted to find the Group Commander Feng who had been missing for ten years to clean up the unjust injustice he suffered.

But Professor Sun also knew that after Captain Feng escaped, he might have fed wild animals in the mountains, or fell into a mountain stream and fell to death. The possibility of escaping to Sichuan was slim. Even if he found the "Earth Immortal Ancient Tomb", he might not be able to find this person in the tomb. However, Professor Sun had a vague premonition of idealism, "Captain Feng is very unusual. Maybe he could really find the entrance to the tomb, and he is still alive in the world."

After hearing what Master Sun Jiu said, I had some ideas in my mind: "We can't solve the riddle of Dixian Village for a while, and the bronze hexagram mirror can only be used once or twice at most. It cannot be easily used to verify the Feng Shui of the Earth Vein before the critical moment. But I see that this Captain Feng is an important clue to finding ancient tombs. The legend of the Earth Immortals in the Ming Dynasty is mostly confusing. It has always been said that it is in Sichuan, but there is no general area. I don't even know whether it is Badi or Shu, or east or west Sichuan? It's not easy to find it. But as long as we can find out which county and town the head of the Captain Feng is from, we will go over and follow the clues and follow the opportunity. It is not difficult to find the entrance to the tomb passage."
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